The snack shop business is thriving, and the queue at the door of the morning is long, and when it is exaggerated, it can be lined up from the door of the shop all the way to the end of Nantou Street.

In view of Liang Zhongnan's unreliability, Luo Shi recruited two other reserve troops with good looks and good manners, and several guys took turns to work.

Although Uncle Liang fished for three days at night and dried nets for two days, then again, it was always the days when he was there, and the business in the shop was more prosperous.

The spring is getting warmer, the willow branches outside have drawn the tender buds, the yellow oriole jumps above the green willows, and the spring is floating.

When she got up in the morning to wash, Luo Shi opened the window next to the dressing table to ventilate, and she leaned against the window, running her long hair with a grate comb, while listening to the low and deep sound of reading outside.

Listening to her next-door neighbor reading has now become her daily alarm clock when she gets up every day, and as long as the book sounds, she knows that the morning is dawn.

Her neighbor is the young master of the owner of Songfeng Teahouse, and the last time she rented a shop, I heard that he had sold his old house and moved to live in the attic of the teahouse.

There is only a wall between him and Luo Shi, but he never opens the window, and can only see him reading at the desk through the east window paper.

A gust of spring breeze blew his window paper, and as if he had a feeling, he opened his mouth to recite half a poem - the difference between things and people in a foreign land

Seeing that he had not continued, Luo Xi read softly:

"Only the old acquaintance ...... Dongfeng"

With a "bang", he pushed open the window, and the two looked at each other unexpectedly, their eyes facing each other.

As soon as Luo Shi's hand was released, the grate comb in his palm fell and smashed into two on the ground.

She looked up and saw that the man was dressed in a long green cloth robe, wearing a curtain on his head, and holding a book in his hand, and he was polite and polite; The man saw that Luo was astringent and his ink hair was like a waterfall, he smiled smartly, and his eyes were bright and shining, as if he had been drinking for three points, and he was drunk when he looked at it.

Instead, he was polite first, and said in a low voice: "Girl Abrupt"

Luo Shi didn't know how to return the courtesy, so he gave up and learned a martial arts fist:

"My name is Ross, I'm your tenant, but you're the landlord?"

"The girl calls me Jiangzhou, and I can't afford to be a young master"

Although he is an elegant scholar, the feeling he gives Luo Shi is not simple, which is very different from that Dongfang Xun. is also a down-and-out scholar, Dongfang Xun has a shabby feeling, in addition to the sage in his eyes, there is also a compromise after being forced by life.

And this Jiangzhou robe stands, but the dragon and phoenix, the temperament is difficult to hide, his eyes are like ancient wells and deep pools, without the slightest ripple.

When they met for the first time, the two just greeted each other, and Luo Shi invited him to come to dinner when he was free, and he replied politely, without exceeding a cent.

After closing the window, he continued to lie at the desk, and she also had something to do.

Until lunch, it was bustling outside, and the pocket ran in and said to Luo Shi:

"Sister, someone went to the teahouse next door to find fault, saying that their guy borrowed a sum of money, and he can't pay it yet, so he wants to collect the title deed of the teahouse and drive people away."

"Dude? Is that edamame? ”

Douzi nodded, worried: "Sister, if they take back the teahouse, will they take it back together with our shop?"

Luo Shi frowned, she pulled up her pocket, and said in a deep voice:

"Let's go, let's go see"

*

The business of the teahouse is bleak, and now it is the time of the meal, and there is no one drinking tea.

In the hall, Edamame knelt tremblingly in the middle, crying and explaining, wanting to clear up his young master:

"This is my own opinion, my young master doesn't know, I will return it as a cow and a horse, don't embarrass my young master!"

A group of five big and three rough men surrounded Jiangzhou, and the ruffians led by him were afraid that he had the fame of showing talent, and he didn't dare to be too arrogant, but just said in a loud voice:

"Young Master Jiang, it is natural to repay debts, the guy in your teahouse, in my grandmother's master's place, borrowed a sum of silver, counting the interest, now it is one hundred taels, you either pay it back, or use this teahouse to pay, we respect you for being a scholar, reasonable, not rude"

Luo Shi stepped over the threshold and went in, and said: "Whoever borrows will pay back, this is reasonable."

The ruffian glanced at Luo Shi and said impatiently:

"Who are you, and why do you care about our gossip here?"

Luo Shi then said: "Young Master Jiang rented a shop for me, I paid for half a year's house, you just want to take the title deed and leave, so what should I do?" ”

The ruffian waved his hand:

"What do you like, what do you have to do with me, I just need him to pay back"

Sticking out his tongue at him, Luo Shi turned to ask Xiang Jiangzhou: "Jiang Gongzi, do you have any cash to pay back?" ”

He shook his head, but he didn't look embarrassed.

He knew why Maodou borrowed this silver, but also because of an obsession in his heart: knowing that the business of this teahouse was unsustainable, and he was losing money every day after reluctantly opening it, but he still wanted to continue to support him, and Layue had to repay the New Year's debt, so he borrowed this money in desperation.

"Edamame, when did you ask him what he borrowed, how much was the borrowing time, and how much was the interest at that time?"

"I borrowed twenty taels a year ago, and thirty taels a year later, and at that time I said that I would repay one and a half taels a month, but somehow it changed by one hundred taels and so much."

"Phew"

The ruffian took out an IOU from his bosom, borrowed eighty taels of silver, and repaid one hundred taels in February.

"You, you!" Edamame trembled with anger and accused: "That day you invited me to take a bath in the bathhouse, and poured me with wine, and when the heat was rushed, I became delirious, and I don't remember that I ever pressed this handprint!" ”

"Ha, the white and black characters are here, even if it is the Yamen, I am not afraid!" snapped the IOU on the table, and the ruffian was triumphant.

Edamame's remorse was even greater, and he slammed his head into his stomach while the ruffian was not paying attention, trying to snatch the IOU on the table and eat it in his mouth.

But the ruffian was born with an iron tower, and his collision was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

The ruffian restrained him with his backhand, pressed half of his face against the table, and uttered foul words and insults.

"Wait—"

Luo Shi had been staring at the IOU, but she saw something strange, she tilted her head, picked up the IOU and looked at it carefully, and said to Edamame:

"Edamame, take off your shoes"

"Huh?"

Although he didn't know why, he struggled out of the ruffian's hand, first glanced at Jiangzhou, and saw that his young master nodded in acquiescence, so he honestly took off his shoes.

Pressing him to a stool, Rass rummaged through a jar of cinnabar and pressed the thumb of a edamame's foot to print it.

She couldn't help but laugh at the comparison with the IOU, threw the IOU in the ruffian's arms, and said happily:

"You go to the yamen to report it, if it is also a voucher if you press it with your thumb, then I have nothing to say."

"What! Foot thumb? ”

Hurriedly picked up the IOU and took a look, my good man, it's exactly the same!

The ruffian was completely stunned now, and he himself was drunk to the bottom of the pool that day, was he really dizzy and pressed his toe to the mark?

Edamame burst into tears and laughed, and kissed the boss on the thumb of his foot.

"Mom, it's natural to repay debts, but if you don't have an IOU, you can get in front of the eldest master?"

The ruffian ripped off the IOU and began to play tricks, he pointed at the person with his finger, and looked up at the young master of the Jiang family.

Luo Shi really didn't want to get involved in the lawsuit, not to mention that this is Tongzhou City now, so Huo Bald is still in front of the prefect of Tongzhou, although he didn't think about murdering her again in the middle of the night these days, I'm afraid that it was because Uncle Liang moved opposite her at night, so he had some scruples about him.

Even so, she didn't want to take the initiative to provoke.

Just about to speak, Jiang Zhou spoke before her:

"You can repay as much money as you borrow, and the interest will be paid to you by one or two halves per month, but the teahouse won't give it to you, so let's go"

"You said yes, then you said a deadline! Far away, how can you call Lao Tzu to believe you! ”

"Three months, give me three months, fifty taels of silver, plus five taels of interest, and give it with both hands"

The ruffian looked down on this scholar in his heart, if he really knew how to do business, the teahouse had already prospered, and he would need his buddy to borrow money to pay off his debts?

"Hmph, don't say it nicely, won't it be on when the time comes?"

"I'll take the teahouse to arrive"

Edamame looked at his young master who was "talking wildly" and was dumbfounded; Luo Shi was also quite surprised when she heard this, and her face was surprised.

Jiang Zhou smiled indifferently, looked into Luo Shi's eyes, and became a bamboo in his chest:

"Success or failure, it's all up to you, girl"

"Huh?"

Luo Shi blinked, why did she put herself in the game again?

*

When the ruffians left, no guests would come at this time anyway, and Edamame put the door panel on the shop, and it was closed today.

After brewing a pot of Biluochun, the three of them sat around a table of eight immortals.

Luo Xi looked at Jiangzhou's comfortable appearance, couldn't help but sigh, and struggled in her heart: Why didn't you see that this was actually a black-bellied master who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger?

Presumably he had already known her, and he had also seen the creative ideas of the "Lady" snack shop.

Then this morning he still looked like a poor scholar, useless, so he had already remembered her?

Jiang Zhou didn't know what she was slandering in her heart, so she only knocked on the tea cover bell gracefully, opened the tea foam, and took a sip of hot tea:

"Did the girl pay half a year's rent? Remanded for three months? Nine taels of silver, you know I don't have it now."

“……”

Luo took a sip of tea in a sullen voice, feeling like she was on a thief ship.

"In fact, with the girl's ability, nine taels of silver is nothing, but it is a pity that the shop has only opened, and the business is booming. "

"I understand what Childe means, but you know that I am a businessman, so I will open up and say something that smells of copper, don't think I stink."

The tea lingered on the tip of his tongue, suppressing a trace of bitterness, leaving a sweet taste, and he chuckled: "Girl, please speak"

"It's not difficult to help you come up with ideas to make the teahouse flourish again, I have many feasible ideas, but what good is it for me? You won't just ask me to keep the shop, and I won't ask people to kick me out for the time being, right? ”

Putting down the tea bowl, he folded his hands, his eyes were clear, and his deep voice slowly entered the picture, and he offered his reserve price:

"I share half of the profit with you, and you will take fifty percent of the profit in the future, even if you and I fail after three months, I will give this teahouse to others, and it will never be more than fifty taels, and I will keep the girl's shop for you, you have no worries"

"So—Then why are you ......?"

Before Luo Shi finished speaking, Jiang Zhou said leisurely:

"Because Jiang is willing to believe in the girl"

He believed in her, and even more in his own vision.